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i just wrote about this. https://keeb.dev/2022/05/28/The-beginning/ https://keeb.dev/2022/05/28/The-beginning/
by nickstinemates 4y ago
i just wrote about this. https://keeb.dev/2022/05/28/The-beginning/ https://keeb.dev/2022/05/28/The-beginning/
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoI’m sorry for your loss. I enjoyed reading this even though I am probably 15 years older, I have a similar story with the predecessors to AOL (BBS systems).
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoI had the privilege of dining with an ex-CEO of AOL around 2017 or so (long after his retirement). I was prepared to rail him for taking advantage of Americans, but he was such a humble and fascinating guy… no.
- nickstinemates 4y agoTY for the kind words. The end of this post took place in 1997 and while the effect still lingers, I can only be grateful that my outlet was productive. Funny enough, AOL was the gateway drug. I found things like usenet, irc, and bbs's and graduated to these things. My early teens were spent in those neighborhoods before moving on to LAMP stacks and more productive programming.
- hydr0 4y agoI am also old school AOLer who's curiosity in programming sparked by making 'progs'. I also had the Mad Dog McCree CD-Rom as a kid on my Gateway 2000 Pentium 60mhz. Shooting up that stagecoach!
- nickstinemates 4y agoThere might have been a lot of hydro/0's but your handle is very familiar. If you hung out in vb/4 in the 90s I am sure we crossed paths.
- efreak 4y agosee also http://mazur-archives.s3.amazonaws.com/aol-files/index.html http://mazur-archives.s3.amazonaws.com/aol-files/index.html
- bredren 4y agoThank you for sharing your story.